“Smith has not been in the wedding website business so far, so her refusal to create them for same-sex couples was a preemptive move. Her site says wedding websites are coming soon.”
This is false.
https://newrepublic.com/article/174440/real-wedding-website-fake-gay-wedding-website-case
@feloneouscat The article says that the ADF has pushed all their chips into the middle of the table on a premise that is wrong one way or another. (Either she did make a site, and there were no repercussions as emphatically predicted. Or she didn't, and the entire thing is moot.)
When there are organisations running on platforms of discrimination, and they're finding their devil under every doily, it's crucial that they're exposed as bad-faith actors brazenly manipulating legal precedent.
Agree. This entire suit is bogus. The pretense that it is valid just makes my gut burn.
The problem is pretty much everything about this case is a lie. Lorie Smith had no standing. At no point was she ever asked to make a website for a gay couple. In fact, the man she identified is heterosexual.
It is a bogus case.
Yet we are going to pretend this case is real.
https://www.advocate.com/law/303-creative-back-in-court